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Bryant Lake Bowl and Theater is a charming venue in Minneapolis, known for its intimate atmosphere and vibrant programming. With a cozy capacity of just 82 seats, the theater features a 9' x 22' stage that has hosted an impressive array of performances, including the quirky holiday favorite "A Very Die Hard Christmas." The venue also showcases musical talent, featuring renowned artists such as Dan Wilson, The Civil Wars, Jeremy Messersmith, and Soccer Mommy. This blend of theater and live music creates a unique community hub where audiences can enjoy a diverse range of artistic expressions in an inviting setting.
Take a look at our calendar to see what excellent shows we have happening this month.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
HOW DO I BUY TICKETS?
You can purchase tickets from our website using the link under the show’s description.
Any remaining tickets will be available at the door.
Doors typically open 30 or 60 minutes before the show; please check the event page on our website for specific times.
Tickets are available online up until two hours before each show. If the show isn’t sold out we will release the remaining tickets at the door.
I CAN’T MAKE IT TO THE SHOW.
CAN I GET A REFUND?
Sorry, but no.
No refunds or exchanges once you’ve purchased a ticket.
I JUST BOUGHT A TICKET.
DO I HAVE AN ASSIGNED SEAT?
Nope. All of our shows are general admission.
First come, first served.
CAN I EAT AND DRINK INSIDE THE THEATER?
For sure! (Bryant-Lake Bowl food and drinks, that is.)
We serve our full restaurant and bar menus inside the theater, which means you can order from and eat directly in your seat.
I’M INTERESTED IN BOOKING A SHOW.
WHAT DO I DO?
Reach out to Kristin Van Loon at Kristin@bryantlakebowl.com
When visiting Bryant Lake Bowl and Theater, convenient parking options are available to make your experience hassle-free. There’s a parking lot located directly behind the building, offering easy access for guests. Additionally, you'll find free off-street parking nearby, perfect for those looking to save on costs. For those who prefer guaranteed spots, paid off-street parking is also available in the vicinity. With these options, you can focus on enjoying the show without worrying about where to park!
The Magic Underground
An unforgettable night of magic with some of the cities' finest conjurors making their return to Bryant Lake Bowl & Theater! Local production company The Magic Underground offers a refreshing approach to magic - no top hats, no corny kid's birthday party gags. These dedicated craftsmen have performed at Turf Club, First Avenue, The Alamo Drafthouse, The Fillmore, at the iconic Magic Castle in Hollywood, and on several local + national TV programs including America's Got Talent, Penn & Teller: Fool Us, and even Wheel Of Fortune, offering an unforgettable mix of sleight of hand, mind reading, and comedy that will leave every mind in the room blown.
Tickets are $25 for General Admission / $40 for VIP (includes access to VIP-only close-up magic show following the main show). Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Manners & Misconduct: The 10th Anniversary!
Romance! Scandal! Tea! Manners & Misconduct returns to the Bryant-Lake Bowl for their 10th anniversary, bringing you six new and completed improvised Jane Austen novels. Whether you’re a die-hard Austenite or you don’t know jack about Jane, you don’t want to miss this show! Based on suggestions from the audience, our cast of women, femme, and non-binary improvisers constructs an entire story in Jane Austen’s classic romantic style. We’d love for you to come laugh, gasp, and swoon with us!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at Bryant Lake Bowl feat. Denim on Denim & Unshavable
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, The Residency at BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
April's shows feature Denim on Denim & Unshavable.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks!* *until 11 pm and 12 am, respectively
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Manners & Misconduct: The 10th Anniversary!
Romance! Scandal! Tea! Manners & Misconduct returns to the Bryant-Lake Bowl for their 10th anniversary, bringing you six new and completed improvised Jane Austen novels. Whether you’re a die-hard Austenite or you don’t know jack about Jane, you don’t want to miss this show! Based on suggestions from the audience, our cast of women, femme, and non-binary improvisers constructs an entire story in Jane Austen’s classic romantic style. We’d love for you to come laugh, gasp, and swoon with us!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Frail Talk + Canary Room + Babytooth at the Bryant Lake Bowl Theater
Formed in the foothills of Northern Colorado in early 2020, Alex Woodchek and Cor Wright of Frail Talk are creating a blooming universe of squiggly indie music for squiggly people. Like the kind surprise of a backyard garden, their songs spring up from the dirt with folk roots, soft pop colors, and burgeoning lyricism ready to welcome every listener with daydream-love.
In August of 2024, Frail Talk released their sophomore album, Microspirit. Recorded in seven days of heat-sweat-friend-magic in Silsbee, TX alongside producers Hannah Read (Lomelda), Tommy Read and with the help of Tobias Bank (drums) and Nathaniel Riley (bass). With more attention to the emotion and substance of sound than ever but with the same honesty Frail Talk has always valued, Microspirit touches on the landscape of the queer divinity in all things, and world speaking through bugs, dogs, sunsets and friends.
The album itself has already had a life in the time it’s been out, being featured on NPR Tiny Desk’s Top Shelf, getting multiple features from their video “little al” and landing singles its first two weeks on Spotify’s “Fresh Finds” and “Fresh Finds Folk” playlists.
Through the art of mashing folk-pop sensibilities with strange-space-synthetic-sounds, Frail Talk offers a landscape where one’s self, surrounding, and experiences are as much a part of the songs as the music itself. The future is bright for Frail Talk. It’s all love now.
Canary Room is the project of Minneapolis-based singer-songwriter Maddy Heide. Playing the guitar and writing songs is her favorite thing to do. Inspired by songwriters like Joni Mitchell, and Adrianne Lenker, she is interested in how stories can be told with voice and guitar. When she isn't playing the guitar and writing songs, she is teaching pre-k through eighth grade music in St. Paul.
Babytooth is Minneapolis-based singer/songwriter Isabel Zacharias, with a rotating cast of friends bringing the songs to life; the most recent (Portland, OR-based) iteration of the band has included Annie Fifer's earworm guitar leads as a constant, with Hugh Jepson on drums and Benson Chong playing bass.
Elaborating on Pacific Northwest indie of the '90s, the songs skate between noisy melodic rock & twinkly folk experiments.
With a debut full-length out now via Portland-based tape labels Bud Tapes and Antiquated Future, Zacharias continues to write intimate song portraits of distraction and awareness, aging and loss, and the dual joy and terror of being fully understood by others.
Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
Show is free! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar!
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM. Full menu available from your seat! Come eat and drink in the theater before and during the show!
Catacomb Cinema Club
Join the goblins and ghouls who create your favorite annual spooky attraction, The Haunted Basement, as they open the crypt door and invite you in for an evening of fun and frights. Gather your squad and see if you can be the Final Girl for our horror film trivia (each month we have a terrifyingly fun new theme). Top teams win prizes! Then settle back and watch a horror film, curated each month by the weird little monsters of Catacomb Collective. Come dressed on theme and compete for the best costume prize. Be sure to check out hauntedbasement.org for this months theme and film!
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Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Improv Zodiac!
Improv Zodiac! is a unique monthly improv show that celebrates each zodiac season. Every month, three curated teams of Twin Cities improvisers—who share astrological placements in that month’s featured sign—come together to deliver hilarious, one-of-a-kind performances. Whether or not you’re interested in astrology, you'll love watching how the stars align on stage!
Improv Zodiac! on Instagram
Steph Callaghan on Instagram
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. $10 at the Door with a Valid Student ID. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Monster Science First Thursdays: Little Shop of Corman
Roger Corman! He is widely known as one of the most important and prolific producers of cheap, schlock monster movies of the 20th century. And Reverend Matt and the Winding Sheet Outfit’s Derek Miller could talk about that for ages. And they will! But did you also know that Corman tried to go legit, or that he had a hand in the careers of Ron Howard, Joe Dante, Francis Ford Coppola, and many others? Come learn about one of the weirdest and most important threads of the history of monster movies! Plus jokes! And Powerpoint!
Tickets are $12 in Advance / $14 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Manners & Misconduct: The 10th Anniversary!
Romance! Scandal! Tea! Manners & Misconduct returns to the Bryant-Lake Bowl for their 10th anniversary, bringing you six new and completed improvised Jane Austen novels. Whether you’re a die-hard Austenite or you don’t know jack about Jane, you don’t want to miss this show! Based on suggestions from the audience, our cast of women, femme, and non-binary improvisers constructs an entire story in Jane Austen’s classic romantic style. We’d love for you to come laugh, gasp, and swoon with us!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at BLB feat. Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, The Residency at BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
May's shows feature Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People.
Darth Hogbeaf are ravening werewolves with a bloodlust for Fun. They hunt Fun, devour Fun, and erect an immense white marble mausoleum to commemorate the hunt.
Sad Songs for Happy People is Hannah Wydeven's solo musical improv show where she recreates the melancholic, wistful, joyful and heartbreaking moments of your life into song. Endearing, funny and full of joy. Come check it out so she can make you laugh and cry.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Manners & Misconduct: The 10th Anniversary!
Romance! Scandal! Tea! Manners & Misconduct returns to the Bryant-Lake Bowl for their 10th anniversary, bringing you six new and completed improvised Jane Austen novels. Whether you’re a die-hard Austenite or you don’t know jack about Jane, you don’t want to miss this show! Based on suggestions from the audience, our cast of women, femme, and non-binary improvisers constructs an entire story in Jane Austen’s classic romantic style. We’d love for you to come laugh, gasp, and swoon with us!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
A Drinking Game MN presents: Encanto
🎉 ¡Bienvenidos a Casa La Madrigal! 🎉
The magic is back! Join us for A Drinking Game MN: Encanto! Where we’ll bring la familia Madrigal to life in a live stage reading of the movie, filled with singing, dancing, and yes, all the magic—well, almost all of it!
Our actors will be bringing the fun with drinking cues throughout the show, and YOU, our amazing audience, will get to join in too! Hear the bell? Take a sip of whatever magical drink you’ve got in hand! We’re beyond excited to take this journey with you, but just a little heads-up: do not pregame before the show—we promise we’ll keep the cues coming!
So get ready to feel the magic, the music, and the fun—because at Casa La Madrigal, there’s always room for one more! 🌟
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Cole Sarar's SciFi Reading Hour
A live reading series featuring new science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Two writers spin original science fiction, and one musician underscores the readings with complementary auditory landscapes. We focus on Science Fiction because we need to be thinking of the future as a society, for a multitude of reasons: we need to be seeing and talking about ourselves and each other in new ways- seeing people of color, women, queer folks, and immigrants in the future- showing folks in positions of power, showing different ways of leading, etc. Society also needs to think about the effects of continuing to mistreat the planet, humans, plants, and animals; but also to envision new ways of doing things (or imagining old ways of doing things in the future).
May 4th, 2025 featuring:
Kyle Tran Myhre (aka Guante) (he/him) is a poet and activist whose work explores the relationships between narrative, power, and resistance. He’s performed at the United Nations, contributed to a Grammy-winning album, been a member of two National Poetry Slam championship teams, and visited countless colleges, conferences, and festivals, using spoken word and storytelling as doorways into critical dialogue. His most recent book, Not a Lot of Reasons to Sing, But Enough, is available now via Button Poetry.
Caly McMorrow (she/her) is a musician, artist, and software engineer based in St. Paul, MN, where she lives with her partner, dog, and collections of synthesizers and saxophones. Her work explores the merging of old and new, live and recorded, organic and electronic, and creator and audience. Her work has been supported by Jerome Foundation, The Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, and the Minnesota State Arts Board.
Cole Sarar (she/they) is a writer, photographer, and tech-artist. She creates public, interactive literary pieces in collaboration with local writers, using phone technology and simple physical design. She’s the creator of Cole Sarar’s Sci-Fi Reading Hour, a live reading series featuring new science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Cole’s creative work envisions possible futures and alternate presents, employing under-represented characters and situations to imagine ourselves existing in the future, having roles, and doing things other than what has been written for us in the past. Their work falls along the intersection of technology and literature. They might use code and tech behind the scenes, or simple physical items like paper, flags, and our cell phones to create surprising, interactive fiction in physical space. Cole served on the board of Art Shanty Projects, and moonlights for various arts organizations. They are first generation Turkish-American.
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Holidating: Mother's Day
An improvised musical love story inspired by this month’s holiday!
My mama said you can't hurry love, but we only have 75 minutes! Holidating is a musical celebration of the Hallmark spirit year round. Each month, the cast improvises a musical about love featuring that month's holiday, Mother's Day.
Grab your tissues and your laugh buckets, holiday lovers!
Produced By: Sarah Arnold-Simondet & Philip Simondet
Music Director: Daniel Goldschmidt
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Insurgent Transmissions: 3CM LESS
MAY FILM: 3CM LESS (62m)
Raeda Taha, is angry with her father, not because in 1972 he hijacked a plan, but because he died in the process. Samia and Surida, are proud of the years their mother, Hajar, spent fighting the Israeli occupation, but know that her resistance put a strain on their family. Partly video diary, 3CM LESS looks at the effect of political struggles on families. Nominated for: IDFA International competition, Yamagata International competition, FID Marseille, and many others.
ABOUT INSURGENT TRANSMISSIONS
Insurgent Transmissions is a film series highlighting the varied Palestinian experience. Made by contemporary Palestinian makers, the films depict the many ways that Palestinians resist occupation in their daily lives and filmmaking practices. Beginning with Annemarie Jacir’s touching family drama, Wajib, the programming will unfold as a series of transmissions: Jacir chooses the second film, and each subsequent filmmaker will select the next film in the series. The films in Insurgent Transmissions highlight the works of contemporary Palestinian filmmakers, amplifying their voices through their films and the films they see as most urgent in this moment of cultural erasure and genocide.
This monthly series is presented by Mizna monthly at Bryant Lake Bowl. Ticket fees go towards supporting the featured Palestinian filmmakers. Online tickets are $10, tickets at the door are sliding scale $5–15. Additional opportunities to support urgent grassroots fundraisers in Gaza will be available at the screening.
ACCESSIBILITY
To make these events accessible, masks are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. Unfortunately we cannot require masks because Bryant Lake Bowl serves food and drinks inside the screening space. Films will be in Arabic with English subtitles.
More about Insurgent Transmissions
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $5 - $15 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Babe Channel Original Movie (BCOM)
Zedus Lapedis! Getcha head in the game! DCOMs are out, BCOMs are in. Babe Channel Original Movies feature all the wacky, ridiculous, and endearing tropes of your favorite Disney Channel Original Movies - all improvised on the spot! Come for the mystical puberty predicaments, teen hero stories, and holiday-themed adventures. Stay for the inevitable discovery of true love, friendship, and belonging.
We also have amazing improv openers to kick off our show each night:
May 8th: Divine Comedy
May 9th: jorts!
May 10th: Your Coworker’s Improv Show
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Babe Channel Original Movie (BCOM)
Zedus Lapedis! Getcha head in the game! DCOMs are out, BCOMs are in. Babe Channel Original Movies feature all the wacky, ridiculous, and endearing tropes of your favorite Disney Channel Original Movies - all improvised on the spot! Come for the mystical puberty predicaments, teen hero stories, and holiday-themed adventures. Stay for the inevitable discovery of true love, friendship, and belonging.
We also have amazing improv openers to kick off our show each night:
May 8th: Divine Comedy
May 9th: jorts!
May 10th: Your Coworker’s Improv Show
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at BLB feat. Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, The Residency at BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
May's shows feature Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People.
Darth Hogbeaf are ravening werewolves with a bloodlust for Fun. They hunt Fun, devour Fun, and erect an immense white marble mausoleum to commemorate the hunt.
Sad Songs for Happy People is Hannah Wydeven's solo musical improv show where she recreates the melancholic, wistful, joyful and heartbreaking moments of your life into song. Endearing, funny and full of joy. Come check it out so she can make you laugh and cry.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Bring Your Kids!
Bring Your Kids!
A comedy variety show for kids and their grown ups.
Perfect for ages 5 and up.
Featuring comedians, musicians and generalized silliness.
Kids - bring a joke to tell! Grown ups - I hope you like jokes.
More information at bringyourkidscomedy.com
Tickets are $7 for Kids / $12 for Adults. Doors open at 2PM. Online ticket sales end at 1PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Babe Channel Original Movie (BCOM)
Zedus Lapedis! Getcha head in the game! DCOMs are out, BCOMs are in. Babe Channel Original Movies feature all the wacky, ridiculous, and endearing tropes of your favorite Disney Channel Original Movies - all improvised on the spot! Come for the mystical puberty predicaments, teen hero stories, and holiday-themed adventures. Stay for the inevitable discovery of true love, friendship, and belonging.
We also have amazing improv openers to kick off our show each night:
May 8th: Divine Comedy
May 9th: jorts!
May 10th: Your Coworker’s Improv Show
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Mother's Day Comedy & Music Show!
Looking for the ultimate Mother's Day treat? Look no further! Our Mother's Day Comedy & Music Show is the perfect way to show Mom how much you appreciate her. We've gathered some of the funniest comedians around to share their funniest stories and to top it off, an incredible bluegrass musical performance will fill the air with joy and celebration. Give Mom the gift of a memorable and fun-filled afternoon – she deserves it! Headlined by Miss Shannan Paul! Featuring David Harris, Trish Cook, Bailey Murphy and Sarah McPeck. Music from The Last Pickd String Band Duo.
Miss Shannan Paul is a comedian, speaker, radio host, benefit auctioneer, and accessibility advocate. She’s appeared on Nick Mom’s Night Out, Laughs TV, and co-hosts on MyTalk 107.1. A board member for the Pacer Center and City of Crystal commissioner, she blends humor and heart to inspire every audience.
The Last Pickd String Band Duo showcases tasteful blends of Americana and Bluegrass. Come see the full 6-piece band at lastpickd.com!
Sarah McPeck is an out and proud lesbian comedian who loves all things Minnesota. Sarah is a writer, producer and improv actor who encourages the audience to join her in laughing life's curve balls. Sarah has produced many long running comedy and sketch shows and produced the documentary, Project Q. She loves teaching improv and owns her own training & development company, Marigold Cowgirl.
Minneapolis-based comedian and raconteur Trish Cook (Anishinaabe) highlights the nuances of life with a well-balanced side of Indigenous humor. She experiences firsthand that laughter is medicine, especially in our darkest times.
David Harris is an Emmy Award-winning comedian and actor who has been entertaining audiences for over 30 years. He’s performed at top clubs, theaters, colleges, and corporate events across the U.S. and Canada, and has worked with acclaimed comedians like Louie Anderson, Beth Stelling, Amir K, and more. David’s 2021 special on Dry Bar Comedy has racked up 230,000 views, and he’s performed at several comedy festivals nationwide including 10,000 Laughs Comedy Festival, the Fargo Comedy Festival, and the Colorado Springs Comedy Festival. David is loved by audiences far and wide for his self-deprecating, painfully relatable takes on family, relationships, and the inescapable anxieties that come with living in today’s world.
Bailey Murphy is a comedian, writer, producer and director. When she’s not making jokes she’s probably forcing you to listen to Irish history or watching cult documentaries. What’s her favorite joke you ask? America.
Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 2pm. Online ticket sales end at 1pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Buffalo Show
Buffalo enjoys a good Spring. Join us!
Micah Nickey, Lakota Singer
Colleen Casey, Dakota Poet
Amanda Young, Dakota Singer
Jothsna Harris with Change Narrative featuring Kimimila Decory
Al Gross, Ojibwe Storyteller
Twin Cities Backup Singers
and of course Buffalo Weavers, American Indian Blues!
Tickets are $8 in Advance / $10 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Purgatory Fest
People say that art is subjective: not here! At Purgatory Fest, audience members will vote on whether the films screened will party with the angels in Heaven, or go dance with the Devil in Hell. Two winners will be crowned God's Most Special Boy, or Satan's Most Special Sinner, alongside other, totally not subjective superlatives! Come join us for one Hell of a party!
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $10 - $20 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Mixtape: ADRIFT - True stories of being lost in the sauce
Mixtape asks you to relish in five true stories told by some of the best storytellers these fine cities have to offer. It is an intimate collection of humorous to harrowing stories of folks who are looking for their way, delving for the answers and seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and this wild and weird world we all stumble through. Enjoy these stories along with Wayward's house band, Pity Party, live painting and incredible food and drinks at the iconic Bryant Lake Bowl.
This evening will take you on a ride with laughs, drinks, food, music and all the feels as we settle in together and build community, one story at a time.
Tickets are $25. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Mixtape: ADRIFT - True stories of being lost in the sauce
Mixtape asks you to relish in five true stories told by some of the best storytellers these fine cities have to offer. It is an intimate collection of humorous to harrowing stories of folks who are looking for their way, delving for the answers and seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and this wild and weird world we all stumble through. Enjoy these stories along with Wayward's house band, Pity Party, live painting and incredible food and drinks at the iconic Bryant Lake Bowl.
This evening will take you on a ride with laughs, drinks, food, music and all the feels as we settle in together and build community, one story at a time.
Tickets are $25. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at BLB feat. Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, The Residency at BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
May's shows feature Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People.
Darth Hogbeaf are ravening werewolves with a bloodlust for Fun. They hunt Fun, devour Fun, and erect an immense white marble mausoleum to commemorate the hunt.
Sad Songs for Happy People is Hannah Wydeven's solo musical improv show where she recreates the melancholic, wistful, joyful and heartbreaking moments of your life into song. Endearing, funny and full of joy. Come check it out so she can make you laugh and cry.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Mixtape: ADRIFT - True stories of being lost in the sauce
Mixtape asks you to relish in five true stories told by some of the best storytellers these fine cities have to offer. It is an intimate collection of humorous to harrowing stories of folks who are looking for their way, delving for the answers and seeking a deeper understanding of themselves and this wild and weird world we all stumble through. Enjoy these stories along with Wayward's house band, Pity Party, live painting and incredible food and drinks at the iconic Bryant Lake Bowl.
This evening will take you on a ride with laughs, drinks, food, music and all the feels as we settle in together and build community, one story at a time.
Tickets are $25. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Lucy London sings Joni Mitchell & other sweet songs
Lucy London is a Minneapolis-based touring musician, singer-songwriter, composer, and yodeling opera singer. She just returned from a sixth month solo tour around the US, and is excited to be back in Minneapolis for this special performance. For a long time Lucy has been toying with the idea of a concert of just Joni—this May, she's undertaking it. Though Joni's voice is irreplicable, her songs deserve to be honored and sung. Come sing along to your favorite Joni songs on May 18th at Bryant Lake Bowl!
"The only person I know who can sing Joni Mitchell almost as well as Joni Mitchell" --Liv LaFluv
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Adorable
True Stories. Pretend People. Real Awkward. Adorable is a Twin Cities-based improv duo, featuring veteran performers Butch Roy and Jen Scott. Formed in 2008, Adorable digs into focus on grounded relationships and the funny: slow burning, often ridiculous, sometimes sweet.
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Butch Roy Bluesky
Tickets are $10. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Swords & Sorcery: The Improvised Fantasy Campaign
Sharpen your sword, brandish your wits, and step with us into a realm of fantasy and adventure where fate is decided by the roll of actual 20-sided dice. In this award-winning improvised fantasy campaign, The Bearded Company will tell you a tale you won't soon forget. Each show will be an epic story in the lives of legendary adventurers. Dragons will be slain, dungeons will be explored and, nerd or not, there’s something for everyone.
Featuring:
Allen Voigt (Game Master)
Maria Bartholdi
MJ Matheson
Tyler Mills
Joe Rapp
Anna Tobin
Lucas Vonasek
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Bluesky
Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Swords & Sorcery: The Improvised Fantasy Campaign
Sharpen your sword, brandish your wits, and step with us into a realm of fantasy and adventure where fate is decided by the roll of actual 20-sided dice. In this award-winning improvised fantasy campaign, The Bearded Company will tell you a tale you won't soon forget. Each show will be an epic story in the lives of legendary adventurers. Dragons will be slain, dungeons will be explored and, nerd or not, there’s something for everyone.
Featuring:
Allen Voigt (Game Master)
Maria Bartholdi
MJ Matheson
Tyler Mills
Joe Rapp
Anna Tobin
Lucas Vonasek
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Instagram
Facebook
Bluesky
Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Swords & Sorcery: The Improvised Fantasy Campaign
Sharpen your sword, brandish your wits, and step with us into a realm of fantasy and adventure where fate is decided by the roll of actual 20-sided dice. In this award-winning improvised fantasy campaign, The Bearded Company will tell you a tale you won't soon forget. Each show will be an epic story in the lives of legendary adventurers. Dragons will be slain, dungeons will be explored and, nerd or not, there’s something for everyone.
Featuring:
Allen Voigt (Game Master)
Maria Bartholdi
MJ Matheson
Tyler Mills
Joe Rapp
Anna Tobin
Lucas Vonasek
Website
Instagram
Facebook
Bluesky
Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at BLB feat. Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, The Residency at BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
May's shows feature Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People.
Darth Hogbeaf are ravening werewolves with a bloodlust for Fun. They hunt Fun, devour Fun, and erect an immense white marble mausoleum to commemorate the hunt.
Sad Songs for Happy People is Hannah Wydeven's solo musical improv show where she recreates the melancholic, wistful, joyful and heartbreaking moments of your life into song. Endearing, funny and full of joy. Come check it out so she can make you laugh and cry.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
This show is FREE! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar.
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM, Show starts at 7pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Catacomb Cinema Club
Join the goblins and ghouls who create your favorite annual spooky attraction, The Haunted Basement, as they open the crypt door and invite you in for an evening of fun and frights. Gather your squad and see if you can be the Final Girl for our horror film trivia (each month we have a terrifyingly fun new theme). Top teams win prizes! Then settle back and watch a horror film, curated each month by the weird little monsters of Catacomb Collective. Come dressed on theme and compete for the best costume prize. Be sure to check out hauntedbasement.org for this months theme and film!
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Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Improv Zodiac!
Improv Zodiac! is a unique monthly improv show that celebrates each zodiac season. Every month, three curated teams of Twin Cities improvisers—who share astrological placements in that month’s featured sign—come together to deliver hilarious, one-of-a-kind performances. Whether or not you’re interested in astrology, you'll love watching how the stars align on stage!
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. $10 at the Door with a Valid Student ID. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Mother Coyote - When the War Comes EP Release Show with special guest Dan Lawonn
Singer-songwriter Andriana Lehr is rebirthing herself with a new moniker - Mother Coyote - and a new set of songs written and informed by the immense changes, both personal and collective, experienced in recent years. Created with jack-of-all-trades producer Andy Thompson (Dessa, Semisonic, Belle and Sebastian) over the course of the last several years, When The War Comes, the first EP bearing the Mother Coyote name, combines Lehr’s detailed eye for universal storytelling with monumental, brooding soundscapes built specifically for these trying times. Featuring an epic band of musicians to fill out the songs and take these arrangements to new heights, and the addition of strings, horns, and percussion creates the perfect playground for Lehr’s deeply personal lyrics. Inspired by the transition into motherhood and a deep journey into healing, her songs balance themes of birth, death, and the seemingly endless spiral of soul searching that fills the spaces in between. With When The War Comes, Mother Coyote has brought forward a raw truth that shines a light in the darkness for us all to look toward.
This show will feature an expanded repertoire of unreleased Mother Coyote songs, as well as the tracks featured on 'When the War Comes' as they were written, with solo voice and piano, with extra textures added by guitar and cello player, Dan Lawonn, who was also featured on the EP and will open the show.
“an ethereal Enya on steroids.” - John Apice, Americana Highways
“The music is arranged smartly with enough diversity to be of interest. “The Great Unknown” is the most sensitive — with horns blaring & leading to tender piano notes to the end. Quite impressive.” - John Apice, Americana Highways
“the music of Mother Coyote embodies a certain humanity and universal connection shared between all who care to seek it out within themselves.” - Digital Wax
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Tickets are $12 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Songversations: we have been told beauty is on the inside
Songversations invite you back into the woods to tell more stories, sing more songs, burn more fairy tales and shatter the “mirror, mirrors on the wall” that tell us what we should look like and how we should live. We have been told beauty is on the inside but we think the outside is pretty gorgeous, too. Come as you are, order some nachos, we think you’re perfect just as you are.
Songversations: Shanan + Rhiannon weave Songs, Stories + Spells into a multi-genre ceremonial cabaret
We Have Been Told We Dissent, We Resist, We are Burned
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Bios
Shanan Custer is a theater maker, writer, director and improviser who has worked with the Brave New Workshop, DalekoArts, Interact, Strike Theater, Theatre Pro Rata, HUGE Improv Theater, Special When Lit, The Mystery Café, Mu Performing Arts, Full Circle Theater, Park Square Theatre, Theater in the Round and many others. Currently, Shanan is working with Unlabeled Theatre Company, a new company that creates inclusive theatre performances, featuring theatre artists with cognitive and/or physical disabilities or who are neurodivergent. She is also part of the Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society, which you can also see at the BLB! When she’s not onstage she is teaching theater and acting at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.
Rhiannon Fiskradatz is a witchy, feminist, multidisciplinary storyteller with a creative practice that spans theatre, music, puppetry, dance, craft & visual art. She writes & performs her own music as MaMa Faerie, and last year turned her debut solo album into an experiential rock opera performed at the MN Fringe Festival. She covers a multitude of genres as a vocalist with The Argyle Street Trio & alt rock band 10 Items Or Fewer. In her capacity as a costume & accessory designer, she has worked with more than fifty professional, amateur and educational organizations. She has an Upper Midwest Emmy, has been featured in Beadwork magazine and was awarded the "Spirit Of Powderhorn" at the Powderhorn Art Fair. Find her debut MaMa Faerie album, Anthems for the Apocalypse, on all the platforms!
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Rhiannon’s music Insta
Shanan’s Insta
Tickets are $15. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at BLB feat. Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, The Residency at BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
May's shows feature Darth Hogbeef & Sad Songs for Happy People.
Darth Hogbeaf are ravening werewolves with a bloodlust for Fun. They hunt Fun, devour Fun, and erect an immense white marble mausoleum to commemorate the hunt.
Sad Songs for Happy People is Hannah Wydeven's solo musical improv show where she recreates the melancholic, wistful, joyful and heartbreaking moments of your life into song. Endearing, funny and full of joy. Come check it out so she can make you laugh and cry.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks! Bryant Lake Bowl is open until 1am!
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Songversations: we have been told beauty is on the inside
Songversations invite you back into the woods to tell more stories, sing more songs, burn more fairy tales and shatter the “mirror, mirrors on the wall” that tell us what we should look like and how we should live. We have been told beauty is on the inside but we think the outside is pretty gorgeous, too. Come as you are, order some nachos, we think you’re perfect just as you are.
Songversations: Shanan + Rhiannon weave Songs, Stories + Spells into a multi-genre ceremonial cabaret
We Have Been Told We Dissent, We Resist, We are Burned
Join us
Bios
Shanan Custer is a theater maker, writer, director and improviser who has worked with the Brave New Workshop, DalekoArts, Interact, Strike Theater, Theatre Pro Rata, HUGE Improv Theater, Special When Lit, The Mystery Café, Mu Performing Arts, Full Circle Theater, Park Square Theatre, Theater in the Round and many others. Currently, Shanan is working with Unlabeled Theatre Company, a new company that creates inclusive theatre performances, featuring theatre artists with cognitive and/or physical disabilities or who are neurodivergent. She is also part of the Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society, which you can also see at the BLB! When she’s not onstage she is teaching theater and acting at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul.
Rhiannon Fiskradatz is a witchy, feminist, multidisciplinary storyteller with a creative practice that spans theatre, music, puppetry, dance, craft & visual art. She writes & performs her own music as MaMa Faerie, and last year turned her debut solo album into an experiential rock opera performed at the MN Fringe Festival. She covers a multitude of genres as a vocalist with The Argyle Street Trio & alt rock band 10 Items Or Fewer. In her capacity as a costume & accessory designer, she has worked with more than fifty professional, amateur and educational organizations. She has an Upper Midwest Emmy, has been featured in Beadwork magazine and was awarded the "Spirit Of Powderhorn" at the Powderhorn Art Fair. Find her debut MaMa Faerie album, Anthems for the Apocalypse, on all the platforms!
Songversations Facebook Page
Songversations Instagram Page
Rhiannon’s music Insta
Shanan’s Insta
Tickets are $15. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Caroline Rose
“I’m not a McDonald’s hamburger,” says Rose, an artist who has become known for being somewhat of an impish indie rebel, championing independent music and creative reinvention. “I’m just trying to make music diverse enough that AI can’t reproduce it.”
Rose’s albums blend psychobilly, pop, shoegaze, alt-country, folk, electronic and experimental. They infuse satire, perspective-hopping, film-inspired narrative and an array of storytelling devices that transport listeners straight into Rose’s self-described “weird buffet” of a mind.
On year of the slug, released February 7, 2025, there is no pretense, no bells or whistles, no heavy production.“Sometimes it’s nice to have a pearl before it’s polished,” Rose says. Recorded in Garageband from a phone, slug offers quality songs in their rawest form, straight to the listener, no middleman.
Rose will tour year of the slug in a series of ‘Evening With’ solo performances in exclusively independent venues carefully chosen to avoid large service fees. “These places are the working class of the touring industry. They’re the ones hit hardest by the corporations hoarding all the money at the top and yet they still find a way to keep their doors open. I cut my teeth in these small clubs. I’m really grateful for them.”
year of the slug will only be offered on Bandcamp and as a limited edition physical release. It will not be available on streaming platforms.
Tickets are $25. Doors open at 7pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Caroline Rose
“I’m not a McDonald’s hamburger,” says Rose, an artist who has become known for being somewhat of an impish indie rebel, championing independent music and creative reinvention. “I’m just trying to make music diverse enough that AI can’t reproduce it.”
Rose’s albums blend psychobilly, pop, shoegaze, alt-country, folk, electronic and experimental. They infuse satire, perspective-hopping, film-inspired narrative and an array of storytelling devices that transport listeners straight into Rose’s self-described “weird buffet” of a mind.
On year of the slug, released February 7, 2025, there is no pretense, no bells or whistles, no heavy production.“Sometimes it’s nice to have a pearl before it’s polished,” Rose says. Recorded in Garageband from a phone, slug offers quality songs in their rawest form, straight to the listener, no middleman.
Rose will tour year of the slug in a series of ‘Evening With’ solo performances in exclusively independent venues carefully chosen to avoid large service fees. “These places are the working class of the touring industry. They’re the ones hit hardest by the corporations hoarding all the money at the top and yet they still find a way to keep their doors open. I cut my teeth in these small clubs. I’m really grateful for them.”
year of the slug will only be offered on Bandcamp and as a limited edition physical release. It will not be available on streaming platforms.
Tickets are $25. Doors open at 7pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Glitter & Be Gay – in the USA
Mistress Ginger storms the castle in a star-spangled swirl of sequins and song, summoning all the fairies to come out and play – yes, to glitter and be gay, in the USA. With maestro Franco Holder at the piano, Broadway and Pride collide in a dazzling cabaret celebration. Ginger ransacks the musical theatre repertoire for its most liberating, camp-tastic, and fabulously queer treasures – stoking your hope, melting your butter, and leaving you glowing in the joy of being perfectly, radically you.
Mistress Ginger is a Juilliard-trained performer based in the Twin Cities. With a passion for storytelling through song, she has brought her cabaret magic to stages across the Twin Cities. And she can cook, too! Her cookbook, Mistress Ginger Cooks: Everyday Vegan Food for Everyone, was published in 2014. To learn more, visit mistressginger.com.
“The fabulous Mistress Ginger performed rousing, live vocal cabaret numbers between dances — and even during them… Her comedic timing and quick-wit were on full display, and her audience was enraptured… Her nuanced facial expression work while singing in a Broadway-ready tone? Masterful… It was a campy and vampy delight.” —Twin Cities Gay Scene
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Tickets are $18 in Advance / $22 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Glitter & Be Gay – in the USA
Mistress Ginger storms the castle in a star-spangled swirl of sequins and song, summoning all the fairies to come out and play – yes, to glitter and be gay, in the USA. With maestro Franco Holder at the piano, Broadway and Pride collide in a dazzling cabaret celebration. Ginger ransacks the musical theatre repertoire for its most liberating, camp-tastic, and fabulously queer treasures – stoking your hope, melting your butter, and leaving you glowing in the joy of being perfectly, radically you.
Mistress Ginger is a Juilliard-trained performer based in the Twin Cities. With a passion for storytelling through song, she has brought her cabaret magic to stages across the Twin Cities. And she can cook, too! Her cookbook, Mistress Ginger Cooks: Everyday Vegan Food for Everyone, was published in 2014. To learn more, visit mistressginger.com.
“The fabulous Mistress Ginger performed rousing, live vocal cabaret numbers between dances — and even during them… Her comedic timing and quick-wit were on full display, and her audience was enraptured… Her nuanced facial expression work while singing in a Broadway-ready tone? Masterful… It was a campy and vampy delight.” —Twin Cities Gay Scene
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Instagram
YouTube
Tickets are $18 in Advance / $22 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Running Errands
Running Errands is a short play series, new every other month.
Running Errands is a cheap ticket to see the most exciting, innovative local theater.
Running Errands is a workshop for writers/directors/actors to experiment with new ideas, new narratives, new characters.
Running Errands is easy, you just have to do it.
This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Tickets are $10. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
Show is free! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar!
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM. Full menu available from your seat! Come eat and drink in the theater before and during the show!
Manners & Misconduct: The 10th Anniversary!
Romance! Scandal! Tea! Manners & Misconduct returns to the Bryant-Lake Bowl for their 10th anniversary, bringing you six new and completed improvised Jane Austen novels. Whether you’re a die-hard Austenite or you don’t know jack about Jane, you don’t want to miss this show! Based on suggestions from the audience, our cast of women, femme, and non-binary improvisers constructs an entire story in Jane Austen’s classic romantic style. We’d love for you to come laugh, gasp, and swoon with us!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at Bryant Lake Bowl feat. Denim on Denim & Unshavable
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, The Residency at BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
April's shows feature Denim on Denim & Unshavable.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks!* *until 11 pm and 12 am, respectively
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Manners & Misconduct: The 10th Anniversary!
Romance! Scandal! Tea! Manners & Misconduct returns to the Bryant-Lake Bowl for their 10th anniversary, bringing you six new and completed improvised Jane Austen novels. Whether you’re a die-hard Austenite or you don’t know jack about Jane, you don’t want to miss this show! Based on suggestions from the audience, our cast of women, femme, and non-binary improvisers constructs an entire story in Jane Austen’s classic romantic style. We’d love for you to come laugh, gasp, and swoon with us!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Rosie Daze Band "Nobody Here But Us" Album Release Show
Riding the wave of their first season and first recording Due North 2024, the Minneapolis-based Bluegrass/ Old Time/ Folk/ all-women band, Rosie Daze was back in studio to record their sophomore year efforts, Nobody Here But Us, due for release ahead of the Bold North festival season, Spring 2025. Recorded and mixed with the great Tony Willamette at Minnehaha Recording Company. Nobody Here But Us showcases the band’s work from 2024 and new songs that will be highlighted in the coming year. Their performances have roots in country, folk, bluegrass, and old-time traditions, delivered with a little saunter and harmonies dipped in sass and sprinkled with spice. The Rosie Daze Band brings “soulful yearning” to the table and lets you feast! Evonne “Boom” Bilotta-Burke writes music that you want to revisit like the bedtime stories of your youth. Jeanne Marti lends a high lonesome voice nurtured over time in her family band that just about breaks your heart. Johnna Lawrence, Beth Young, and Adelle Hyrkas hand out goosebumps during each and every set with harmonies that add depth, and Julie Kittleson holds down the low end to add richness to every note. Adding to that, the energy and joy the band brings to their performances, well it leaves the audience with all the feels each and every time. Overheard from fans- “I grew up in the Smokey Mountains, and tonight you all made me homesick.”
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Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Adorable
True Stories. Pretend People. Real Awkward. Adorable is a Twin Cities-based improv duo, featuring veteran performers Butch Roy and Jen Scott. Formed in 2008, Adorable digs into focus on grounded relationships and the funny: slow burning, often ridiculous, sometimes sweet.
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Jen Scott Bluesky
Butch Roy Bluesky
Tickets are $10. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
Show is free! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar!
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM. Full menu available from your seat! Come eat and drink in the theater before and during the show!
Reverend Matt's Monster Science: Agent Elora Electric Battle Masterpiece
The award-winning Agent Elora series returns, in a four-night Monster Science theater event! Agent Elora and Reverend Matt face off against their first full-blown villain! There’s a giant, city-wrecking monster fight! And a vampire hunter grimly monologuing into the middle distance! Plus the monster facts and comedy jokes you have come to expect from Monster Science!
Starring Elora Riley, Matthew Kessen, Jay Kistler, Emily Knotek, Heather Meyer, and Eric Webster!
People have said these things about previous parts of the series:
“This new two-headed monster version is a charming and savvy evolution, lending an old Hollywood-style comedic banter,” “Matt and Elora have great chemistry and timing,” “We laughed! We were charmed! We’ll go again!” and “Better than the first!” And Cherry and Spoon wrote: “Monster Science is always a sure thing great show, and this version amps it up.” Continue with Agent Elora’s journey, or jump in for the first time, it will all make sense, this isn’t, you know, “Severance”!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Reverend Matt's Monster Science: Agent Elora Electric Battle Masterpiece
The award-winning Agent Elora series returns, in a four-night Monster Science theater event! Agent Elora and Reverend Matt face off against their first full-blown villain! There’s a giant, city-wrecking monster fight! And a vampire hunter grimly monologuing into the middle distance! Plus the monster facts and comedy jokes you have come to expect from Monster Science!
Starring Elora Riley, Matthew Kessen, Jay Kistler, Emily Knotek, Heather Meyer, and Eric Webster!
People have said these things about previous parts of the series:
“This new two-headed monster version is a charming and savvy evolution, lending an old Hollywood-style comedic banter,” “Matt and Elora have great chemistry and timing,” “We laughed! We were charmed! We’ll go again!” and “Better than the first!” And Cherry and Spoon wrote: “Monster Science is always a sure thing great show, and this version amps it up.” Continue with Agent Elora’s journey, or jump in for the first time, it will all make sense, this isn’t, you know, “Severance”!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Bring Your Kids!
Bring Your Kids!
A comedy variety show for kids and their grown ups.
Perfect for ages 5 and up.
Featuring comedians, musicians and generalized silliness.
Kids - bring a joke to tell! Grown ups - I hope you like jokes.
More information at bringyourkidscomedy.com
Tickets are $7 for Kids / $12 for Adults. Doors open at 2PM. Online ticket sales end at 1PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at Bryant Lake Bowl feat. Denim on Denim & Unshavable
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, The Residency at BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
April's shows feature Denim on Denim & Unshavable.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks!* *until 11 pm and 12 am, respectively
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Reverend Matt's Monster Science: Agent Elora Electric Battle Masterpiece
The award-winning Agent Elora series returns, in a four-night Monster Science theater event! Agent Elora and Reverend Matt face off against their first full-blown villain! There’s a giant, city-wrecking monster fight! And a vampire hunter grimly monologuing into the middle distance! Plus the monster facts and comedy jokes you have come to expect from Monster Science!
Starring Elora Riley, Matthew Kessen, Jay Kistler, Emily Knotek, Heather Meyer, and Eric Webster!
People have said these things about previous parts of the series:
“This new two-headed monster version is a charming and savvy evolution, lending an old Hollywood-style comedic banter,” “Matt and Elora have great chemistry and timing,” “We laughed! We were charmed! We’ll go again!” and “Better than the first!” And Cherry and Spoon wrote: “Monster Science is always a sure thing great show, and this version amps it up.” Continue with Agent Elora’s journey, or jump in for the first time, it will all make sense, this isn’t, you know, “Severance”!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Reverend Matt's Monster Science: Agent Elora Electric Battle Masterpiece
The award-winning Agent Elora series returns, in a four-night Monster Science theater event! Agent Elora and Reverend Matt face off against their first full-blown villain! There’s a giant, city-wrecking monster fight! And a vampire hunter grimly monologuing into the middle distance! Plus the monster facts and comedy jokes you have come to expect from Monster Science!
Starring Elora Riley, Matthew Kessen, Jay Kistler, Emily Knotek, Heather Meyer, and Eric Webster!
People have said these things about previous parts of the series:
“This new two-headed monster version is a charming and savvy evolution, lending an old Hollywood-style comedic banter,” “Matt and Elora have great chemistry and timing,” “We laughed! We were charmed! We’ll go again!” and “Better than the first!” And Cherry and Spoon wrote: “Monster Science is always a sure thing great show, and this version amps it up.” Continue with Agent Elora’s journey, or jump in for the first time, it will all make sense, this isn’t, you know, “Severance”!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $18 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its weekly open mic at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
Show is free! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar!
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM. Full menu available from your seat! Come eat and drink in the theater before and during the show!
Cole Sarar's SciFi Reading Hour
A live reading series featuring new science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Two writers spin original science fiction, and one musician underscores the readings with complementary auditory landscapes. We focus on Science Fiction because we need to be thinking of the future as a society, for a multitude of reasons: we need to be seeing and talking about ourselves and each other in new ways- seeing people of color, women, queer folks, and immigrants in the future- showing folks in positions of power, showing different ways of leading, etc. Society also needs to think about the effects of continuing to mistreat the planet, humans, plants, and animals; but also to envision new ways of doing things (or imagining old ways of doing things in the future).
April 6, 2025 featuring:
Naomi Kritzer (she/her) is a science fiction and fantasy writer from St. Paul. In Minneapolis and St. Paul, she is probably best known for her political blog, which provides deep-dive information on candidates in local political races. Her fiction has won the Hugo Award, the Edgar Award, the Nebula Award, and the Minnesota Book Award. She has a spouse, two grown kids and three cats (the number of cats is subject to change without notice). You can find Naomi online at naomikritzer.com or on Bluesky as @naomikritzer.bsky.social. Her latest book, Liberty’s Daughter, came out in November 2023.
Dissociate (he/him), the science fiction-inspired dark electronic project from musician and sound designer Jonathan Ford is spontaneity personified. For over 20 years, Ford has been manufacturing aural chaos from hardware sound sources, live synthesizers, triggered samples and abused filter banks in real-time. Each Dissociate performance offers a unique exploration, bringing forth instant musical discoveries within this confined aural space. As a musician, Ford has performed with Nitzer Ebb, Covenant, Haujobb, and more. Ford co-founded and hosted The Descent on the University of Minnesota's Radio K, and has performed with Dies Irae !US, Tiree & Hutch, Stellar Vector and Rear Window. As a sound designer, Ford has contributed music, audio collages, and sound effects to theatrical and performance art pieces including independent film, the XIV World Congress International Federation for Theatre Research in Amsterdam, and the Walker Museum in Minneapolis, MN. Ford is also guitarist for synth pop group Little Tin Box.
Cole Sarar (she/they) is a writer, photographer, and tech-artist. She creates public, interactive literary pieces in collaboration with local writers, using phone technology and simple physical design. She’s the creator of Cole Sarar’s Sci-Fi Reading Hour, a live reading series featuring new science fiction from Cole and special guest writers, underscored with futurist soundscapes by accomplished musicians. Cole’s creative work envisions possible futures and alternate presents, employing under-represented characters and situations to imagine ourselves existing in the future, having roles, and doing things other than what has been written for us in the past. Their work falls along the intersection of technology and literature. They might use code and tech behind the scenes, or simple physical items like paper, flags, and our cell phones to create surprising, interactive fiction in physical space. Cole served on the board of Art Shanty Projects, and moonlights for various arts organizations. They are first generation Turkish-American.
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
A Drinking Game MN Presents: Clueless
As If!!!
A Drinking Game MN returns in April with Clueless!
Join our cast as we do a live stage reading of this 90’s hit. Clueless will come to life on stage and oh yes, we’ll be bringing the fashion! Not only will our cast have drinking cues, but you, our audience will also have them! Hear a bell, take a drink of what ever you like be it alcohol, NA, water, tears… Except tears get salty so maybe choose one of the other options. Join us and get ready with your favorite quotes!
“It does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty”
See you all soon!
Tickets are $15 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
She is Rizzin'
The world's probably ending, so we might as well laugh about it! Ladybrain Sketch Comedy is back with a sketch show* that covers everything from heartbreak to religion to Zac Efron. Put down your tissues and get your giggle on with your favorite Minneapolis sketch collective!
*This is not improv. We cannot stress that enough.
Ladybrain Sketch Comedy is a group of women, trans, and non-binary creatives who write and create all their own work. Established in 2017, the group has received accolades from the Minnesota Fringe Festival, MN Daily, and more!
Cast:
Meredith Jacobs
Gabby Vanden Avond
Lauren Chesnut
Kerri O'Halloran
Mickey Trost
Susie Campbell
Contributing Writers:
Meredith Jacobs
Gabby Vanden Avond
Lauren Chesnut
Kerri O'Halloran
Mickey Trost
Katie Wilson
Tickets are $15. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at Bryant Lake Bowl feat. Denim on Denim & Unshavable
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities!
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, The Residency at BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
April's shows feature Denim on Denim & Unshavable.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building. It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks!* *until 11 pm and 12 am, respectively
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
She is Rizzin'
The world's probably ending, so we might as well laugh about it! Ladybrain Sketch Comedy is back with a sketch show* that covers everything from heartbreak to religion to Zac Efron. Put down your tissues and get your giggle on with your favorite Minneapolis sketch collective!
*This is not improv. We cannot stress that enough.
Ladybrain Sketch Comedy is a group of women, trans, and non-binary creatives who write and create all their own work. Established in 2017, the group has received accolades from the Minnesota Fringe Festival, MN Daily, and more!
Cast:
Meredith Jacobs
Gabby Vanden Avond
Lauren Chesnut
Kerri O'Halloran
Mickey Trost
Susie Campbell
Contributing Writers:
Meredith Jacobs
Gabby Vanden Avond
Lauren Chesnut
Kerri O'Halloran
Mickey Trost
Katie Wilson
Tickets are $15. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
My Little Monsters: The Monsters and Ponies of Equestria
Reverend Matt is joined by the incomparable Heather Meyer for a journey into a land of manticores, griffons, dragons, and many more mythical monsters - Equestria, the setting of My Little Pony!
Learn some deep ancient legendary creature lore, and some somewhat less ancient My Little Pony facts!
Is friendship really magic?
COME AND FIND OUT!
Tickets are $12 in Advance / $14 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Insurgent Transmissions: Life is Beautiful
Insurgent Transmissions is a film series highlighting the varied Palestinian experience. Made by contemporary Palestinian makers, the films depict the many ways that Palestinians resist occupation in their daily lives and filmmaking practices. Beginning with Annemarie Jacir’s touching family drama, Wajib, the programming will unfold as a series of transmissions: Jacir chooses the second film, and each subsequent filmmaker will select the next film in the series. The films in Insurgent Transmissions highlight the works of contemporary Palestinian filmmakers, amplifying their voices through their films and the films they see as most urgent in this moment of cultural erasure and genocide.
This monthly series is presented by Mizna. Ticket fees go towards supporting the featured Palestinian filmmakers. Online tickets are $10, tickets at the door are sliding scale $5–15. Additional opportunities to support urgent grassroots fundraisers in Gaza will be available at the screening.
ACCESSIBILITY: To make these events accessible, masks are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED. Unfortunately we cannot require masks because Bryant Lake Bowl serves food and drinks inside the screening space. Films will be in Arabic with English subtitles.
APRIL FILM: LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL BY MOHAMED JABALY
In 2014, while a young Palestinian director Mohamed Jabaly was visiting a film festival in Tromsø, Norway, Israel launched a war on Gaza and the borders to his home were closed. It will be seven years before he can return home and see his family again. While waiting for the situation to change, Jabaly and friends begin documenting the process of applying for asylum. Facing many challenges, Mohamed stays connected with family in Gaza. They provide solace, but when Gaza is attacked again, Mohamed is faced with an impossible choice: if he goes back to Gaza, he may never be able to leave again and continue his work as a filmmaker. Told by a director who uses his creativity to connect with the world and forge a way forward, Life is Beautiful is a story of overcoming a life put on hold by international politics and rigid bureaucracy.
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $5 - $15 Sliding Scale at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Holidating: April Fool's
An improvised musical love story inspired by this month’s holiday!
Love is no joke! Holidating is a musical celebration of the Hallmark spirit year round. Each month, the cast improvises a musical about love featuring that month's holiday, April Fools. Grab your tissues and your laugh buckets, holiday lovers!
Produced By: Sarah Arnold-Simondet & Philip Simondet
Music Director: Daniel Goldschmidt
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Uproar Comedy Open Mic
Winner of CityPages Best of the Twin Cities Comedy Open Mic 2020 and MNComedy’s Open Mic of the Year 2021, Uproar continues with its first shows of 2024 at the Bryant-Lake Bowl Theater.
Show is free! There will be a donation bucket at the door if you’d like to support Uproar!
Doors and open mic sign-up are at 6 PM. Full menu available from your seat! Come eat and drink in the theater before and during the show!
Future Reference
Two generations, two plays, one evening to remember… for future reference.
English Scrimshaw Theatrical Novelties presents Future Reference, a darkly funny double feature from father and son playwrights Joshua and Aaron English Scrimshaw.
Act I: The evening begins with the premiere of Aaron English Scrimshaw's “End of the Line”, the story of Jim and what happens when he is hit by a sudden revelation at the bus stop.
Act II: Next is Joshua English Scrimshaw's “Watchbird", based on a prophetic 1953 short story by Robert Sheckley. Charlie manufactures armed drones designed to detect and detain murderers before they strike. Will this new technology usher in an age of peace and harmony… or end life on Earth as we know it?
This production is being presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Association Members’ Project Code.
PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR ENGLISH SCRIMSHAW THEATRICAL NOVELTIES
“A smart and tasty departure from the expected.” - Pioneer Press
“Inventive, risky, and hilarious” - Star Tribune
“What's not to love?” - Cherry and Spoon
ABOUT THE CAST AND CREATORS
Joshua English Scrimshaw (writer, director, actor) is the co-founder of the Twin Cities-based all-ages theater company Comedy Suitcase and co-host of the weekly old-time radio podcast and performance group, The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society. Joshua has been called "a clever and inventive voice in Twin Cities comedy theater" by The Star Tribune, and "a modern day Buster Keaton" by mnartists.org. When he’s not performing, podcasting, or digging up fifteen-year-old pull quotes to use in his bio, Joshua runs multiple book clubs and tends to the endless and adorable needs of his dogs, cats, rabbit, guinea pig, and ball python. He is deeply grateful to the cast - family and friends all - for being a part of this production.
Aaron English Scrimshaw (writer, director, actor) graduated with a bachelor's degree in Theatre in 2024. He wrote and performed “End of the Line” as a staged reading for his senior project. He is delighted for the opportunity to perform it again, fully staged at the BLB! First he'd like to thank Bianca for throwing herself into this show (again!) and for all her support during college. He'd like to thank his parents for cultivating and supporting his love of the arts. And finally a huge thank you to his partner Shepard for his love, encouragement, and reminders that you're still an artist even on days when you don't make anything at all.
Adrienne English Scrimshaw (director, actor) began her dance training in Los Angeles with members of the Sadlers Wells/Royal Ballet. It was very British. She studied Horton-based modern dance and choreography at CalArts. It was very Postmodern. While at CalArts she made her first forays into collaboration, working with installation artists, filmmakers and animators. Since moving to Minneapolis in 1990, Adrienne has performed for many local choreographers and spent fifteen years as a member of John Munger's Third Rabbit Dance Ensemble. As a choreographer Adrienne has a particular love of comedy and satire. She has created work for the Scrimshaw Brothers late night comedy shows, Look Ma No Pants and The Scrimshaw Show. She has choreographed for numerous Minnesota Fringe Festival shows including Shut Your Joke Hole, To Mars with Tesla, Amateur Hour, and Smart Girls on Ice, which the Star Tribune praised as “An eye opener for people who think they don’t like dance…” But she considers performing “Smells Like Nirvana” with Weird Al Yankovic at the Minnesota State Fair as the highlight of her career.
Bianca Rose (actor, director) Bianca Rose is so excited to be working on “End of the Line”. With a bachelors in Theatre, Bianca has worked many shows performing, directing, and many things in between. She has acted in shows including Midge from The Hollow, the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz, Judy from Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and many more. She has directed shows such as Wrinkle in Time, Queens, and More to Her Story. She would first like to thank Aaron for letting her partner with him on this meaningful show. She would like to thank her friends and family who have supported her, and for MayMay JB.
Natalie Rae Wass* (actor, co-producer) has known these playwrights for many moons, one of them since he was a baby, and is thrilled to collaborate with them! You may have seen her tapping into her pirate nature with Joshua and Kyra in last summer's Yo Ho Hum: A Pirate's Mid-life Crisis at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. You may have met her in a mascot costume and not even known it.
Sydney Knight (actor) graduated from North Central University in 2024 where she studied Global Studies and Theatre. Some of her favorite shows there and elsewhere have been Godspell, Pride & Prejudice, Silent Sky, and Anastasia. She lives in Champlin with her dear husband Ryan and their two insane cats. 1 Corinthians 2:2
Kyra Scanlan Duzynski (actor) is a lifelong dancer and musician. She has been a performing member of The Phipps Dance Theater since 2011 and enjoys choreographing contemporary dance pieces for local ensembles. In recent years, Kyra dipped her dance toes in the acting world via the Minnesota Fringe Festival. As the youngest child in her family, Kyra has always had a proclivity for performing. While she still enjoys doing character bits at the supper table and prancing around the living room for attention, she is grateful to the Twin Cities theater community for providing her with a broader audience.
Shepard Bruin (graphic designer) opted out of an arts major to seek an associate degree in Automated Systems, graduating in 2023. He now primarily utilizes this extended knowledge of machinery to draw cool robots. His contributions to this show include the title for “End of the Line”, playing the part of the Overseer in the initial performance of the aforementioned show, and creating the art for the pamphlet you're holding right now. He'd like to thank Mirage for her continued support.
*Member of the Actor’s Equity Association
Tickets are $16 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Future Reference
Two generations, two plays, one evening to remember… for future reference.
English Scrimshaw Theatrical Novelties presents Future Reference, a darkly funny double feature from father and son playwrights Joshua and Aaron English Scrimshaw.
Act I: The evening begins with the premiere of Aaron English Scrimshaw's “End of the Line”, the story of Jim and what happens when he is hit by a sudden revelation at the bus stop.
Act II: Next is Joshua English Scrimshaw's “Watchbird", based on a prophetic 1953 short story by Robert Sheckley. Charlie manufactures armed drones designed to detect and detain murderers before they strike. Will this new technology usher in an age of peace and harmony… or end life on Earth as we know it?
This production is being presented under the auspices of the Actors’ Equity Association Members’ Project Code.
PREVIOUS PRAISE FOR ENGLISH SCRIMSHAW THEATRICAL NOVELTIES
“A smart and tasty departure from the expected.” - Pioneer Press
“Inventive, risky, and hilarious” - Star Tribune
“What's not to love?” - Cherry and Spoon
ABOUT THE CAST AND CREATORS
Joshua English Scrimshaw (writer, director, actor) is the co-founder of the Twin Cities-based all-ages theater company Comedy Suitcase and co-host of the weekly old-time radio podcast and performance group, The Mysterious Old Radio Listening Society. Joshua has been called "a clever and inventive voice in Twin Cities comedy theater" by The Star Tribune, and "a modern day Buster Keaton" by mnartists.org. When he’s not performing, podcasting, or digging up fifteen-year-old pull quotes to use in his bio, Joshua runs multiple book clubs and tends to the endless and adorable needs of his dogs, cats, rabbit, guinea pig, and ball python. He is deeply grateful to the cast - family and friends all - for being a part of this production.
Aaron English Scrimshaw (writer, director, actor) graduated with a bachelor's degree in Theatre in 2024. He wrote and performed “End of the Line” as a staged reading for his senior project. He is delighted for the opportunity to perform it again, fully staged at the BLB! First he'd like to thank Bianca for throwing herself into this show (again!) and for all her support during college. He'd like to thank his parents for cultivating and supporting his love of the arts. And finally a huge thank you to his partner Shepard for his love, encouragement, and reminders that you're still an artist even on days when you don't make anything at all.
Adrienne English Scrimshaw (director, actor) began her dance training in Los Angeles with members of the Sadlers Wells/Royal Ballet. It was very British. She studied Horton-based modern dance and choreography at CalArts. It was very Postmodern. While at CalArts she made her first forays into collaboration, working with installation artists, filmmakers and animators. Since moving to Minneapolis in 1990, Adrienne has performed for many local choreographers and spent fifteen years as a member of John Munger's Third Rabbit Dance Ensemble. As a choreographer Adrienne has a particular love of comedy and satire. She has created work for the Scrimshaw Brothers late night comedy shows, Look Ma No Pants and The Scrimshaw Show. She has choreographed for numerous Minnesota Fringe Festival shows including Shut Your Joke Hole, To Mars with Tesla, Amateur Hour, and Smart Girls on Ice, which the Star Tribune praised as “An eye opener for people who think they don’t like dance…” But she considers performing “Smells Like Nirvana” with Weird Al Yankovic at the Minnesota State Fair as the highlight of her career.
Bianca Rose (actor, director) Bianca Rose is so excited to be working on “End of the Line”. With a bachelors in Theatre, Bianca has worked many shows performing, directing, and many things in between. She has acted in shows including Midge from The Hollow, the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz, Judy from Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime, and many more. She has directed shows such as Wrinkle in Time, Queens, and More to Her Story. She would first like to thank Aaron for letting her partner with him on this meaningful show. She would like to thank her friends and family who have supported her, and for MayMay JB.
Natalie Rae Wass* (actor, co-producer) has known these playwrights for many moons, one of them since he was a baby, and is thrilled to collaborate with them! You may have seen her tapping into her pirate nature with Joshua and Kyra in last summer's Yo Ho Hum: A Pirate's Mid-life Crisis at the Minnesota Fringe Festival. You may have met her in a mascot costume and not even known it.
Sydney Knight (actor) graduated from North Central University in 2024 where she studied Global Studies and Theatre. Some of her favorite shows there and elsewhere have been Godspell, Pride & Prejudice, Silent Sky, and Anastasia. She lives in Champlin with her dear husband Ryan and their two insane cats. 1 Corinthians 2:2
Kyra Scanlan Duzynski (actor) is a lifelong dancer and musician. She has been a performing member of The Phipps Dance Theater since 2011 and enjoys choreographing contemporary dance pieces for local ensembles. In recent years, Kyra dipped her dance toes in the acting world via the Minnesota Fringe Festival. As the youngest child in her family, Kyra has always had a proclivity for performing. While she still enjoys doing character bits at the supper table and prancing around the living room for attention, she is grateful to the Twin Cities theater community for providing her with a broader audience.
Shepard Bruin (graphic designer) opted out of an arts major to seek an associate degree in Automated Systems, graduating in 2023. He now primarily utilizes this extended knowledge of machinery to draw cool robots. His contributions to this show include the title for “End of the Line”, playing the part of the Overseer in the initial performance of the aforementioned show, and creating the art for the pamphlet you're holding right now. He'd like to thank Mirage for her continued support.
*Member of the Actor’s Equity Association
Tickets are $16 in Advance / $20 at the Door. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
The Residency at Bryant Lake Bowl feat. Vortex and Again & Again
Watch and discuss the best improv in the Twin Cities.
Every Friday at 9:30 pm, The Residency at BLB features 2 improv groups who present their own solutions to the question, "how do you create 25 minutes of theater - without a script!"
March's shows feature Again & Again and Vortex.
Again & Again features Eric Heiberg, Sam Baker Harris, and John Eisenrich Vortex features Meghan Wolff, Ike Okafor, Meredith Howell, Karyn Wilson, KQ Quinn, Michael Rogers, Adam Mellerup, Neco Pacheaco, Ruben Gomez, MJ Matheson, and Rita Boersma.
After the show, the audience is encouraged to join the cast in the restaurant side of the building.
It's a cozy place to gather as a community to do bits, talk shop, and do bits. Plus there's food and drinks!*
*until 11 pm and 12 am, respectively
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. Doors open at 9pm. Online ticket sales end at 7:30pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
She is Rizzin'
The world's probably ending, so we might as well laugh about it! Ladybrain Sketch Comedy is back with a sketch show* that covers everything from heartbreak to religion to Zac Efron. Put down your tissues and get your giggle on with your favorite Minneapolis sketch collective!
*This is not improv. We cannot stress that enough.
Ladybrain Sketch Comedy is a group of women, trans, and non-binary creatives who write and create all their own work. Established in 2017, the group has received accolades from the Minnesota Fringe Festival, MN Daily, and more!
Cast:
Meredith Jacobs
Gabby Vanden Avond
Lauren Chesnut
Kerri O'Halloran
Mickey Trost
Susie Campbell
Contributing Writers:
Meredith Jacobs
Gabby Vanden Avond
Lauren Chesnut
Kerri O'Halloran
Mickey Trost
Katie Wilson
Tickets are $15. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Tubthumping Thursdays
We'll be singing, when we're winning. Join us with a whiskey drink, a vodka drink, a lager drink, or a cider drink, any kind of drink. And enjoy a comedy variety show. Each monthly Thursday show will feature unique comedy from short/long form improv groups, comedians, and/or comedy sketches.
Comedy for the good times, and comedy for the better times.
Tickets are $12. Doors open at 6PM.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.
Improv Zodiac!
Improv Zodiac! is a unique monthly improv show that celebrates each zodiac season. Every month, three curated teams of Twin Cities improvisers—who share astrological placements in that month’s featured sign—come together to deliver hilarious, one-of-a-kind performances. Whether or not you’re interested in astrology, you'll love watching how the stars align on stage!
Improv Zodiac! on Instagram
Steph Callaghan on Instagram
Tickets are $10 in Advance / $15 at the Door. $10 at the Door with a Valid Student ID. Doors open at 6pm. Online ticket sales end at 5pm.
Our full restaurant and bar service is available in the theater! Order from your seat and enjoy the show, we'll take care of the rest.